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New Delhi: Recognising privacy as a fundamental right, a draft personal data protection bill Friday proposed "explicit consent" for processing 'sensitive personal information' like religious or political belief, sexual orientation and biometric information. It also provided for the right to be forgotten and prescribed steep...

Bhubaneswar: Shankaracharya of Govardhan Peeth Swami Nischalananda Saraswati has supported the hereditary service of servitors at Puri Srimandir and stressed the need for economic wellbeing of the community to ensure their behavioural change and disciplined service. Saraswati said this at a meeting held at Govardhan...

Barang: The mutilated body of a 35-year-old man was found dumped near Barpali Adivasi slum in Chandaka police limits here Friday. Chandaka police recovered the body of Niranjan Nayak, a resident of Kantabada Bhagabati Nagar here, and sent it for an autopsy. “On the basis...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) is planning extensive landscaping and tree planting along 40 km of major roads in the city ahead of the Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2018, which will be held in the capital city from November 28. The BDA will...

Bhubaneswar: In a serious intelligence lapse, a suspected man who was shot in his chest fled after getting treated at private hospital in the capital. The police reached the hospital for enquiry three hours after the suspected man left city. The incident exposed the slack...

Versatile actor Atul Kulkarni who had played memorable characters in his long movie career beginning with the role of cold-blooded fundamentalist stalking the cities during the turbulent years of Partition in Hey Ram , the gangster in Chandni Bar , the idealist scribe in Page...

Washington: China has quietly resumed its activities in the Doklam area, a question raised by Congresswoman Ann Wagner during a Congressional hearing indicates. “Although , China has quietly resumed its activities and neither Bhutan nor India has sought to dissuade it. China’s activities in the...

Bhubaneswar: The body of a youth was Thursday found hanging in a guest house at Patia under Chandrasekharpur police limits here. The deceased identified as Amit Kumar Jena, 21, was a resident of Nistipur in Banki of Cuttack district. According to guest house staffers, Jena...

New Delhi: Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJD) Thursday urged the Centre to take steps to stop the theft of children and false rumours about abduction of children on social media resulting in lynching by mobs. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Mahtab said, “Child snatching rumours...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the elections to urban local bodies (ULBs), the government has amended municipal laws to pave way for open ballot system during no confidence motions against the civic body chairperson and vice-chairperson. The Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) department has issued the amended...